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With its small-sized PCB, the Raspberry Pi can easily be protected by many types of cases. Here I show how to build a Raspberry Pi into a mini-ITX tower. More…

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Breadboard power supplies are easy-to-use, companion modules which provide regulated voltage to the power rails of solderless breadboards. They are both easy to use and extremely useful for fast, efficient breadboard prototyping of micro-electronic projects. More…

Categories Electronics

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After several steps of preparation, the ESP8266 can finally be programmed. Fortunately this step has been made fairly simple by using, what is a familiar platform for many, the Adruino IDE. This post will show how to upload a few variations of the basic Blink sketch to an ESP-01 together with the wiring of LEDs. More…

Categories Electronics

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There are some times in life where decisions are based on cost of running an electrical devices. Comparative decisions based on, for example, Wattage alone is real easy, but what about putting those values into an actual money value. This post will show you how. More…

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When using the Arduino IDE to program Arduino or Arduino-like microcontrollers, there are 4 basic sections that each sketch should have. They are the comment section, the variables section, the setup section and the loop section. More…

Categories Electronics

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